Dry-cell battery



Nov. 1.0 1925.

J. HARRIS DRY CELL BATTERY Filed May 19, 1924` in Sv... n

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UNITED lsraxrns JOHN HARRIS, or CLEVELAND,

PATENT OFFICE.

omo, AssIeNon '.ro CHARLES M. ruLxEnsoN, or CLEVELAND, omo. t

DRY-CELL BATTERY.

Application med may is, 1924. serial No. 714,310.

To all whom it may concern n Be 1t known that I, JOHN HARRIS, a citie zen of the United States, and a resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in n Dry-Cell Batteries, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to electric batteries and particularly to that class known as dry cells.

It is one of the objects of the invention to provide an improved form of battery that will have a relatively large ampere-hour capacity so as to adapt the battery especially for use in connection with radio apparatus. It is a further object of the invention to provide an improved type of dry cell of practically standard dimensions but having a much larger ampere-hour capacity and hence longer life than the dry cells heretofore used. Y

A further object of the invention isv to provide a dry battery which will be economical to manufacture and in which'the' zinc forming the anode is utilized in a more eflicient manner than has been the case with batteries heretofore used. l

Other objects of the invention andy the features of novelty will be apparent from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, of

. which water and airtight, and a good insulator. The construction of these containers is well known to those skilled in the art and hence a detailed description is superfluous. Within the container 10, which may be of any suitable shape but which I prefer to make rectangular and usually square, there is a zinc anode 11 in the form of a re'ctan to the shape of the container 10, as will be larv spiral, the outer portion of which con orms' seen in Fig. 3. .The zinc anode ll'is covered by a pulp paper lining 12which is so placed as to prevent the mix or depolarizing compound '13, which fills-the battery, from com` ing in conta-ct with" the plate. The mix or compound 13 maybe the usual. manganese dioxide mixturejthat'i's ycommonly used in dry battery construction and the formula, of

this mix forms no4 part of the present invention. It is well" understood by these skiled in the art that it is absolutelynecessary to prevent the mixl 13 from contacting with the lanode 11 at any point inthe battery and itis common to use ya paper-1ining such as I have indicated at 12, for'this purpose.

Within the inner coil 14 of the anode 11 I arrangethe' carbon cathode 15 which preferably extends the full lheight of the cell, as shown in Fig. 2. v

The inner end of the coil 14, indicated at 16, in Fig. 3, is spaced away-from the outer coil to provide a space 17, which is filled with the mix and which :establishes communication between` the interior of the outer coil and the interior of the inner coil so that the currentl will flow through the mix from all of the exposed surfaces ofthe an- 0de 11 to` the cathode 15,'the only portions ofthe anode not active being the outer surface ofthe outer coil'which liesadjaeent to the interior wall of the container.

' A binding post 18 is 'secured to thel carbon 15 in .the usual manner and a binding post 19 is secured to the zinc anode 11 in such -a` manner as lto be insulated from themix, as shown in Fig. 1. In this form of con-4 struction I have indicated a rubber tube 20 as surrounding the binding post 19 andcowl ered by the lining 12. Anyl other suitable 195 x form o`f connection and insulation may be employed.

The form of the anode makes it POSSible to utilize a very large part of its total surface as actve and this gives large capacity' to the cell. .In the case ofl the inner coil 14 both sides of that portion of the anode are active. The construction described has the advantage of being simple and-easy to manufacture and yet providing the desired large capacity in a rela-tively small'container.

. I have not illustrated the means vwhich I will employ' for insulating the top ofthe cell as this forms no .part of the presentinven-4 lio tin and sutherefoure, A110i', requisite to the Present disclosure.

While I have illustrated.y a rectangular' spiral yet it Will be obvious thatl the prin-'- ci les of-the. invention may be carried outA with other forms and I, therefore, intend to cover al1 constructions that corne within the sc c'geof theappended claim.

l 'aving thus described my invention, what I claim is:

' In a. single-cell dry battery, the combination of a cathode, an anode surrounding said cathode and consisting of a sheet of ative materlal arranged: in vgeneral spiral `form,

tinuous current path is provided between the 20 cathode andail active surfaces of the anode. In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JOHN HARRIS. 

